"So far, over five million pupils in 28,249 schools in these states are currently been fed under the programme, while Kano and Katsina states are expected to be added to the beneficiaries states in the coming weeks.

"Also, over 50,000 cooks are currently engaged under the programme.

"The school feeding programme, which is part of President Muhammadu Buhari administration's N500 billion National Social Investment Programmes, NSIP, has a target to feed 5.5 million schoolchildren by the end of 2017," the statement said.

It further said that the School Feeding Programme was presently collaborating with the Federal Ministry of Health to deliver an integrated deworming programme for pupils in classes 1 to 6 across 17 states under the NHGSFP.

"The integrated programme, which is scheduled for the first and second week of December in these states, will deliver three different drugs for the treatment of diseases endemic to specific states; particularly schistosomiasis; soil-transmitted helminths and river blindness/onchocerciasis. The drugs to be distributed are Albendazole, Ivermectin and Parazaquintel.

"Supported by the Federal Government, three facilitators would be within the states for the period to achieve these objectives and ensure that the pupils in these states are dewormed", he said

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